How do I specify the image used by Facebook for shares and likes?

Note: We want to provide a few common and useful snippets for your use, but our support department is not able to assist you with editing code. They can help you with code placement.If you want to specify what image is used when someone shares/posts/likes your website on Facebook you can add this snippet of code to the tag:

<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg"/>

Make sure you have already uploaded your image and published it.Your picture will look best if it is square and at least 600 pixels wideYou just need to change the URL in the code to the address of the published image you want to use. In Sitebuilder Plus, the header area to add the code is located under Page Settings in the Advanced Settings.After you've added the code there and published you will need to run your website URL through the Facebook Debugger so they will crawl the site and make the update.

How do I specify an image for FB to post when my link is posted on a page or in a message? I want to change the one it is choosing.

Since posting this I found directions but:

1. I do have my image uploaded and it appears on my site, but I didn't specifically PUBLISH the image, I had always just published my site. So how do I find the IMAGE url?

2. When I go to advanced settings there are three choices, the first one already has data in it. I don't recall why I did that or what will change if I put in something else there. Is that where the data is supposed to go?

To clarify, The code above will go into the Head section. Even if there's other code in their already, that is ok. Just scroll to the bottom of the existing text/code and then paste in the new code. You just need to edit the url in the code as shown below.

http://www.mydomain.com/facebooklogo.jpg <br><br>Replace "mydomain.com" with your actual domain name, and then also replace "facebooklogo.jpg" with the actual image file name of the image that you wish to use.&nbsp; You will have to be sure that the image is published in the File Manager also. <br>

For some reason, somewhere in the code this statement with the wrong page name got saved, and so that is what shows up when I post a link on Facebook. How do I change what is now in "[my page name]" to the text I want to display?

Ok, I see now. I actually have to have the picture published and showing somewhere on the website. I had it uploaded, but not published. Thank you. It is now listed on the og:image, but I still have a problem. A random image is still appearing as my facebook image. When I do the debugger, I get this message:

fb:app_id hasn't been included in the meta tags. Specify the app ID so that stories shared to Facebook will be properly attributed to the app. Alternatively, app_id can be set in url when open the share dialog. Otherwise, the default app id( 966242223397117 ) will be assigned.

Thanks! I got the og:image to work when you explained to me that it wasn't published. I also learned, that my image was too large. I kept reading that there were problems when an image was too small and to make it more than 600x600 px. NOPE! I shrunk mine down to the 300s and it finally fits. It had nothing to do with that fb:app_id thing that I thought might be doing it. Thanks again and Merry Christmas!

None of this worked. I have the following error: Object at URL 'http://tmhpetrescue.com/' of type 'website' is invalid because the given value '1790166707881140' for property 'fb:admins' could not be parsed as type 'fbid'.

I'm not sure you can. The code in the post at the tp needs to be added to the site, then you need to run the debugger tool, but I believe Facebook will only allow one image in the meta tag, so you can add the code but the image will be the same for all pages I believe.

I've heard that. It's limited for sure, but there are images that are general in nature that could be appropriate for FB posts on that basis. i.e. and image that says "Welcome" as displayed here. How do I set that as a default image to FB from my site?

How do I change the picture/icon for my website that shows when sharing on social media?? I accidentally changed it to a twitter symbol last time I edited my site. Please helpThank you thank you thank you :)

I entered the code into the advanced settings and it still does not work. I tried facebook debugger and i get all these errors: - I only have the one link in there.... <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.gttow.com/GT_Tow.PNG"/>;

Inferred PropertyThe 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.

Inferred PropertyThe 'og:url' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.

Inferred PropertyThe 'og:title' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.

Share App ID MissingThe
'fb:app_id' property should be explicitly provided, Specify the app ID
so that stories shared to Facebook will be properly attributed to the
app. Alternatively, app_id can be set in url when open the share dialog.